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On Sunday October 13th, from 11:00 to 16:00 at Sanyuan Qiao Phoenix City (See the Map), HomeShop will hold its fifth edition of True and False as part of the Beijing Farmers’ Market and Country Fair.

Our guest is Alessandro Rolandi, who will be offering visitors tastes of his Italian risotto c0oked on-site using materials available in the market. In exchange, he will ask visitors to write their “Message to the West” on vintage Chinese candy wrappers that will be distributed with candy to gallery-goers at Gallery Apart, Rome, as part of the group show ‘Subterfuge’, opening January 18th 2014.

On Friday September 20th, from 11:00 to 16:00 at INDIGO mall, HomeShop will hold its third edition of True and False as part of the Beijing Farmers’ Market and Country Fair.

Our guest is Vitamin Creative Space’s the Shop. This edition of “True and False” marks the third anniversary of the Beijing Farmers Market, which began as the Country Fair at Vitamin Creative Space’s summer 2010 location in Caochangdi on September 18th, 2010. You are welcome to join the celebration!

1. the shop will take the form of a “shop” within public space; 2. the shop will exhibit pieces inspired by individual experience, made by emerging Chinese artists, fashion designers and various young creators, and can all be used in daily life. Through viewing and using these objects, viewers will be able to experience the signals for “thought” and “action” that this space emanates. 3. Aside from viewing the “products”, one can also purchase them, the shop thus transforms the shopping process into a new mode of communication. 4. As an exhibition, the shop presents a tangible interface of the philosophy of life. It will generate a non-hierarchical medium within the public space, for people to experience and re-discover life’s energy; 5. The physical form of the shop and the works presented will evolve depending on the participating artists and circumstances surrounding the exhibition; 6, the shop attempts to dissolve the separation between subject and object, hence further stimulating the integration between life and art. It allows for personal approaches to the pursuit for and realisation of a “better life” in our times.

On Saturday July 27th, from 11:00 to 16:00 at INDIGO mall HomeShop will hold its second edition of True and False as part of the Beijing Farmers’ Market and Country Fair, hosting two activities.

12:00 pm — 酒仙桥艺术之旅 Jiuxianqiao Art Tour

艺术的转基因作用，被转基因后的艺术。假作真来，真亦假。真作假来，假亦真…与 “见”赏大师一起去发现有机艺术…

This tour of the new international art works in the Jiuxianqiao area addresses the transgenetic function of art, and the genetically modified art: When the false is considered true, the true is the false, when the true is considered false, the false is the true… Let’s find organic art together…

全天 all day — 蔬菜洗礼仪式 Vegetable Purification Ceremony

修女艾丽萨 安妮 玛丽 玛丽亚 主持的蔬菜祝福服务主持。为了保证口味十足，带你的农产品来接受祝福。

Led by Sister Eliza-Annie-Mary-MariaBring your produce for a ritual blessing. Guaranteed to enhance taste.

Over the summer of 2013, HomeShop will participate as a special guest of 北京有机农夫市集 Country Fair & Beijing Farmers’ Market in a bi-weekly series of artistic contributions titled “True and False.”

True and False #1

For the first edition, from 11 am to 5 pm on Monday June 10th at Indigo Mall, Melbourne-based collaboration Normal Gallery (Matthew Greaves, Daniel Stephen Miller and Rohan Schwartz) will be selling 400 hand-modified miniature figurines of Australian Aboriginals (originally made and hand-painted in China) repainted as archetypal caucasian beachgoers. The figurines will be sold in their country of origin at the original cost price (4RMB each) to address the sovereignty, provenance and legitimacy of these exemplars of Australiana.

HomeShop will also offer a number of home-grown objects to the public.

URBAN GROWERS COMPETITION!

Are you a city-dweller who grows food (home-grown organic, no chemicals!) in or around your home?
So you think your vegetables are the best in town, huh?
Come and prove your skills at the next Country Fair, happening September 25th in Dashilar!

Judges will include a combination of esteemed farmers, distinguished gourmets and food writers. A great way to share your knowledge, techniques and even your seeds! Serious fun! Great or strange prizes!

“Have you eaten yet?” is a collection of artist practices that work with farming and food production and consumption. It is meant as a database to find, compare and learn from these art practices, and their intentions, their methods, their networks. This is an ongoing list being compiled for the project Country Fair, within the context of China and the information available here, but it seeks to connect information of these practices internationally. It is presented online as well as at each Country Fair.

This month, Country Fair will be held on June 11th at the Guanghua International complex in CBD. There will be more than 20 participating farmers, vendors, environmental and rural aid NGOs, artists, and musicians. Come for fresh, healthy produce and snacks, and stay to learn more about the connections between agriculture and the environment. Feel good about what you’re eating – meet your farmers!

This month, Country Fair is being held during Little Donkey Farm’s Spring Planting Festival! We are inviting local farmers, artisans, environmental NGOs, and art and music collectives for another fantastic exchange event. Come for the market and stay for all of the activities – workshops, demonstrations, kids’ classes, and even a field day – at Little Donkey’s festival! Please join and share your experiences so that we can keep this event growing together. And remember to bring your own bowl and utensils to sample fresh, homemade organic treats. Part of the proceeds of the sale at the Country Fair will go to earthquake relief efforts in Japan and Yunnan Province. Please come to the Fair and learn more about the NGOs we are working with.

Without knocking the door they came. Ripped rooftop and started to shovel into our house. NOOOO! oh no no no, very scared and didn’t know what was going on but knowing had to escape from their hand, so went into dark dark spot but much faster and stronger, they were catching my mom and babies and friends… did not have time to say good bye…….then all the sudden, rooftop came back and being quite again… (a red worm from Gloval Village, environmental NGO in Beijing)

Dealing with food waste in city so full of concrete that you cannot rely on natural soil/microorganism to break it down (or a pig to eat them). We are experimenting 4 different compost to make fertilizer and soil. EM compost, cardboard compost and food waste just mixing with soil. Got red worms for worm compost, there are 20 adults and many small bits living there right now. Everyday on the news about Japan, that polluted vegetables and water are found even polluted water running into the ocean. Fukushima prefecture told all the farmer in this area to postpone their seeding process, prefectural assembly investigate for the possibility of soil pollution. All the milk got to discard and domestic animals has to be kept inside. Things are up side down. Many people on the stricken area are lacking for food, Disaster relief network (Donations we collect at the HomeShop, Country Fair go to here) are making 1000 and more food everyday on the spot. When water, soil, air and seeds get contaminated (I guess already has been) what can you do? …..Though, its not all down turn, you can always find a way around and get by, like this and this.